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To note, every movie in the top 4 has a #1, and so they start falling now.

#4. Escape from Planet of the Apes (1971)
Stifled- 1
JONA- 2
Inviso- 3
KBM- 4
Johnbobb- 5
Scarlet- 6
Wickle- 6 RUINED IT
Karo- 8

"This was easily the biggest surprise of the list for me. Ive seen the original Planet of the Apes quite a few times, but never any of the sequels. I kind of assumed Heston of the Apes would reign supreme, but then this little gem appeared on my TV. It gave me more of the characters I really liked from the original. It did some nice world building and lore setup. It gave me an extremely well done role reversal that I didnt know I wanted until I saw it. It taught me what grape juice plus is. It also shattered my heart into pieces at the very end. I was hoping with all my might that Zira and Cornelius would get a happy ending, butwell, you know. We dont do happy endings in this series. Its so cool that the franchise was able to slip a surprise sequel turned prequel into the mix and make it so good. Sometimes these kinds of ideas are very poorly executed, but Escape is a major exception.

Traviss Opinion: He kept asking me over and over again if there were monkeys on the TV. I told him yes, since no one was around to correct me. But dont tell Cornelius and Zira I said so! Travis also decided to climb up to the top of the couch like a kitty and watch forreasons. And during the first committee hearing, he got all up in my face with a Mickey Mouse hot dog car and made loud car noises. Never a dull moment with him." ~Stifled

"As weird of a direction the movie is for the series, it ends up being a good movie and a good contrast to the first movie. Having Zira and Cornelius as the protagonists is a great choice and I liked seeing them react and adapt to the human world and seeing how the humans react to and treat them. Drink Grape Juice Plus." ~JONA

"Planet of the Apes is a classic movie, but Escape managed to impress me a great deal, for a concept that really SHOULDNT have worked. I mean, sure, it pretty much ignores the entire first movie in the franchisebut whatever. The basic premise is enough to carry the plot. You get some light-hearted fun for the first half of the film, with Zira and Cornelius getting to highlight their personalities in the modern human world of the 1970s. But then things take a turn, and you know what? I actually like the characterization in this. Yes, there are a bunch of humans that are the antagonists, but I feel like theyre mostly portrayed as thinking rationally. It was extremely impressive to see the President (a character who easily couldve been a generic strawman) giving some reasonable arguments and sounding intelligent about scientific theory. Granted, I may have had my expectations lowered a fucking LOT recently, but still. I found the overall plot interesting and similarly in-line with how The Day the Earth Stood Still worked out." ~Inviso
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I'll just go back to gifs. Not like the winner was gonna click my topic.
https://imgur.com/SXyi7uX